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This volume deals with the female dynasty of the House of David and its influence on the Jewish Messianic Myth. It provides a missing link in the chain of research on the topic of messianism and contributes to the understanding of the connection between female transgression and redemption, from the Bible through Rabbinic literature until the Zohar. The discussion of the centrality of the mother image in Judeo-Christian culture and the parallels between the appearance of Mary in the Gospels and the Davidic Mothers in the Hebrew Bible, stresses mutual representations of "the mother of the messiah" in Christian and Jewish imaginaire. Through the prism of gender studies and by stressing questions of femininity, motherhood and sexuality, the subject appears in a new light. This research highlights the importance of intertwining Jewish literary study with comparative religion and gender theories, enabling the process of filling in the 'mythic gaps' in classical Jewish sources. The book won the Pines, Lakritz and Warburg awards.

Jewish mythology. --- Messiah --- Mothers in the Bible. --- Mothers and sons --- Judaism --- Hebrew mythology --- Mythology, Hebrew --- Mythology, Jewish --- Mythology --- Judaism. --- Religious aspects --- Doctrines --- Religious texts --- Motherhood --- Religion --- Images of women --- Book

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Sabbathaians. --- Messiah --- Jewish mythology. --- Sabbataeans --- Sabbathaists --- Sabbatians --- Shabbathaians --- Shabbethaians --- Cabala --- Jewish sects --- Judaism --- Hebrew mythology --- Mythology, Hebrew --- Mythology, Jewish --- Mythology --- Judaism. --- Doctrines --- Naḥman, --- Naḥman ben Simḥah, --- Sabbathaians --- Messie --- Judaïsme --- Nahman,

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Nathaniel Berman’s Divine and Demonic in the Poetic Mythology of the Zohar: The “Other Side” of Kabbalah offers a new approach to the central work of Jewish mysticism, the Sefer Ha-Zohar (“Book of Radiance”). Berman explicates the literary techniques through which the Zohar constructs a mythology of intricately related divine and demonic personae . Drawing on classical and modern rhetorical paradigms, as well as psychoanalytical theories of the formation of subjectivity, Berman reinterprets the meaning of the Zohar’s divine and demonic personae, exploring their shared origins and their ongoing antagonisms and intimacies. Finally, he shows how the Zoharic portrayal of the demonic, the “Other Side,” contributes to reflecting on alterity of all kinds.

Cábala. --- Jewish mythology. --- Demonology. --- Demonology --- Demonology, Christian --- Demons --- Evil spirits --- Spirits --- Spiritual warfare --- Hebrew mythology --- Mythology, Hebrew --- Mythology, Jewish --- Mythology --- Cabbala --- Jews --- Kábala --- Kabalah --- Kabbala --- Kabbalah --- Qabalah --- Jewish literature --- Magic --- Mysticism --- Cabala --- Judaism --- Zohar. --- Book of splendor --- Midrash de-Rabbi Shimʻon ben Yoḥai --- Midrash ha-zohar --- Midrash Yehi Or --- Sefer ha-zohar --- Sii︠a︡nie --- Sohar --- Yerushalmi --- Zoğar

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The myths of Genesis are the foundation for hundreds of texts written at later diachronically distinct and datable periods. Seven texts -- Genesis itself, Genesis Rabbah, Pirke deRabbi Eliezer and mediaeval compilations -- are examined here, with five interrelated questions in focus: Can structuralist theory be applied usefully to societies conscious of history and change? What is the relationship between continuity and transformation as a mythological tradition develops diachronically? What role does diachronic development within a myth play in relation to its underlying structure? What is the synchronic structure of Israelite (or rather, biblical) myth? Are there identifiable patterns of transformation and continuity between biblical myth and the three diachronically distinct levels of rabbinic myth? (SAP)

Ethnology in the Bible. --- Genealogy in the Bible. --- Incest. --- Jewish mythology. --- Structural linguistics. --- Structuralism (Literary analysis). --- Ethnology in the Bible --- Genealogy in the Bible --- Jewish mythology --- Structural linguistics --- Incest --- Judaism --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Religious aspects --- 222.2 --- 612.6.07 --- 299.24 --- -Structural linguistics --- Hebrew mythology --- Mythology, Hebrew --- Mythology, Jewish --- Mythology --- Linguistics --- Sex crimes --- Sexual intercourse --- Consanguinity --- Genesis --- Blood relationship. Consanguinity. Incest --- Godsdienst van de Hebreeën. Oud-israëlitische godsdienst. Eloisme --- 299.24 Godsdienst van de Hebreeën. Oud-israëlitische godsdienst. Eloisme --- 612.6.07 Blood relationship. Consanguinity. Incest --- Bible. --- Be-reshit (Book of the Old Testament) --- Bereshit (Book of the Old Testament) --- Bytie (Book of the Old Testament) --- Chʻangsegi (Book of the Old Testament) --- Genesis (Book of the Old Testament) --- Sifr al-Takwīn --- Takwīn (Book of the Old Testament) --- Criticism, interpretation, etc.